Content Warning: This guide section contains depictions of domestic abuse, violence against women, murder, suicide, and sexual assault.

Mr. Fox describes how Mary Foxe visited him in his study while he was writing and listening to Glazunov. His wife, Daphne, was upstairs. She didn’t complain about the noise from the music or anything else because Mr. Fox once complimented her on how she never complained.

Mary comes in and goes to shake hands with Mr. Fox, but he throws a telephone at her, upset that she has returned after seven years. She sits down and plays with the globe while Mr. Fox is transfixed on her. Mary asks how Mr. Fox is, and he says he is in love with Mary. Unconvinced, she questions the limits of Mr. Fox’s love, and she argues that he needs to change and stop being a villain.

Mr. Fox tries to counterargue, but Mary calls him a “serial killer” because he always kills his female characters in his writing. Mr. Fox thinks Mary is too sensitive with no sense of humor, and he argues that his writing is just fiction. Mary asks what Mr. Fox would do for her, and he says he would kill dragons for her.